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This post was inspired by a Twitter thread of mine, which you can find here. "Worked on features for internal React app" or "Built feature in React app to reduce manual work by marketing team by 2 hours per day" Which one of these hits better...
In part 1, we automated the provisioning of an Amazon EC2 instance using AWS CloudFormation. In part 2, we added an Amazon RDS Postgresql database to the CloudFormation template from part 1 so both the EC2 instance and the database can be provisioned...
As a programmer, hard-coding values in my code, even test code, feels dirty and it's usually not a scalable practice. I've built an AWS CDK app to manage my infrastructure with code and I'm starting to write some integration tests with InSpec, an ope...
In part 1, we automated the provisioning of your Amazon EC2 instance using AWS CloudFormation. When you built the EC2 instance manually in the past, you were seeing inconsistencies between environments, had to manually test your infrastructure setup,...
As a full-stack developer, you don’t have time to deal with infrastructure, environment inconsistencies, manual testing, and manual deployment of your team’s web app. It’s time-consuming, frustrating, and requires yet another skill-set, especially si...
Did you know that CloudFormation templates come in two flavors? YAML and JSON. When CloudFormation launched, JSON was the only format supported. YAML was introduced to CloudFormation in 2016. Both JSON and YAML are text and can be edited in any text ...
If you're a full-stack software developer, you probably want to focus your time delivering core business value. Dealing with infrastructure, environment inconsistencies, manual testing, and manual deployment steps is time consuming, frustrating, and ...
Business is picking up. You're seeing more traffic to your web app and you know the next big traffic spike could put it over the edge. When that happens, your customers won't be able to do their job and it will cost them and your company money. Today...
What if instead of manually configuring your infrastructure resources, one by one, in a web browser or at the command line, you could manage it all in code? What if you could manage whole environments across the globe, at scale? You can, with Infrast...
